UNDERSTANDNG & ADDRESSNG POLT'L & EPISTEMOLOGICAL DIVISION in Spring 2025 (PO1099FB1)

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Course Master: 
FIRSTBRIDGE IN POLITICS (PO1099)
Term: 
Spring 2025
Discipline: 
PO (Politics)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Exam Date: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 12:30
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Notes

This course will explore how language defines humanity; particularly our ability to transmit knowledge and govern ourselves collectively through politics. We will examine and discuss the important role language plays in society, epistemology, and democracy as well as how they are interrelated. We will use the works of philosophers and theorists along with class discussions to begin to grasp these ideas and apply them to the current political crises of political polarization, “Fake News”, and democracy in order to better understand these crises and how we can begin to address them. Students will leave this course with a deeper practical understanding of contemporary politics, democracy, epistemology, and language, including how they might begin to meaningfully communicate across the political and epistemological divisions rending apart societies and nations.


Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field. (FB LO1)
  2. Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context. (FB LO2)

Syllabus

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Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, January 13, 2025
End Date: 
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
13:45
15:05
C-104
Friday
13:45
15:05
C-104